The firemen were prevented from reaching the woman trapped in her house, because of the huge pile of junk she had accumulated over many years.

The effort will require us to not drive past burning heaps of open air rubbish in our city and stop to ask why and who is exposing us to these hazardous materials.

The game was slow, and it was also boring.

Rake the leaves into piles and we'll burn them.

Tom is a garbage collector.

There is so much trash here.

We also found puppies stranded on a pile of floating rubbish who were delighted to see us promptly jumped in our boat where they enjoyed some food affection.

Mountains of trash in Beirut.

Tom has a trash compactor.

Tom emptied the waste basket.

Actually many many Chinese people hold more than one passport!

A woman volunteering to clean protest grounds in Kyiv.

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We pay garbage collectors each month.

There's a lot of trash on the far bank of the river.

The garbage collector comes three times a week.

Cigarette butts are the biggest source of litter in the world.

We've got to get rid of all this trash.

The area is home to the city landfill.

Arvind Gupta Turning trash into toys for learning

Considering that space debris is an issue of concern to all nations,

Dumping of E waste poses a major challenge in India.

Garbage accumulates outside of a secondary school in Bizerte, Tunisia.

The richer the city, the more rubbish it generates.

Yes it pays them (rubbish collection, parking access, etc.).

Now my neighbors also support the idea of separate waste collection.

We want a sustainable solution to Lebanon s waste disposal problem.

But what of the local residents and waste pickers?

The world generates about a billion tons of garbage a year.

She explained to me that we throw away too much garbage.

Combined with efforts like assigning places to deposit garbage, ensuring regular garbage collection and some punitive actions for littering, the authorities can make sure that the Indian streets will remain clean.

Malagasy citizens going through trash pile ups in Antananarivo.

That all changed when Favio was shown something he had never seen before a violin made out of garbage.

We transform it from a tomb into a womb, from a trash pile into a fruit garden, from a hell into a paradise

Housing workers will now have to clear away the piles of rubbish which surround the house

Chatter on the social media site Twitter birthed a three day strike on trash collection under the hashtag Tubasuraalbanco.

In response, the Madrid City Council requested people to limit their trash output.

Here are some videos which show examples of police violence against civilians.

Manual scavenging is illegal in India but the practice continues to exist.

A new president, however, means a new beginning, the right time to sort out the rot. I am not sure that President Putin will assemble a talented government.

A new president, however, means a new beginning, the right time to sort out the rot.

It's the only way for a dignified end, I can't eat from garbage .

It may have started as a movement to protest against piling rubbish.

He has started working on recycling he contacts recycling companies, collects bags full of bottles and cans, and puts in new bags.

I have nothing against recycling, but to suggest that the children of the poor be squeezed into the old buses from the companies trash, Hummmm, too much, don t you think?